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Easley, Michael. Proclamation, 2007-10-15, Watch Out for the Child Week

MICHAEL F. EASLEY
GOVERNOR
WATCH OUT FOR THE CHILD WEEK
2007
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTJl-cAROLINA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS more than 14,000 school buses travel on the roadways every school day in North
Carolina; and
WHEREAS school buses are equipped with flashing warning lights, crossing control arms and
stop arms to inform the motoring public when a school bus is approaching or engaging in a student
passenger stop; and
WHEREAS the number of school bus stop arm violations was over 2,300 per day in 2007; and
WHEREAS every such violation presents a chance that a child could be injured or killed while
boarding or leaving the school bus; and
WHEREAS the North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, through the North
Carolina State Highway Patrol, will conduct "Operation Stop Arm," a safety initiative to reduce collisions,
injuries and fatalities involving school bus passengers by enforcing all traffic laws around the state's ·
schools and school buses; and
WHEREAS, in the U.S. there are, on average, six fatalities and numerous injuries reported in the
loading zone around school buses, caused by motorists fail ing to stop for the school bus.
NOW THEREFORE, I, MICHAEL F. EASLEY, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do
hereby proclaim October 15-19,2007, as "WATCH OUT FOR THE CHILD WEEK" in North
Carolina and call upon all of our citizens to safeguard our children's lives by driving safely and prudently
upon the observation of a school bus.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of
North Carolina at the Capitol in Raleigh this fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord two thousand
seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-second.

MICHAEL F. EASLEY
GOVERNOR
WATCH OUT FOR THE CHILD WEEK
2007
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTJl-cAROLINA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS more than 14,000 school buses travel on the roadways every school day in North
Carolina; and
WHEREAS school buses are equipped with flashing warning lights, crossing control arms and
stop arms to inform the motoring public when a school bus is approaching or engaging in a student
passenger stop; and
WHEREAS the number of school bus stop arm violations was over 2,300 per day in 2007; and
WHEREAS every such violation presents a chance that a child could be injured or killed while
boarding or leaving the school bus; and
WHEREAS the North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, through the North
Carolina State Highway Patrol, will conduct "Operation Stop Arm," a safety initiative to reduce collisions,
injuries and fatalities involving school bus passengers by enforcing all traffic laws around the state's ·
schools and school buses; and
WHEREAS, in the U.S. there are, on average, six fatalities and numerous injuries reported in the
loading zone around school buses, caused by motorists fail ing to stop for the school bus.
NOW THEREFORE, I, MICHAEL F. EASLEY, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do
hereby proclaim October 15-19,2007, as "WATCH OUT FOR THE CHILD WEEK" in North
Carolina and call upon all of our citizens to safeguard our children's lives by driving safely and prudently
upon the observation of a school bus.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of
North Carolina at the Capitol in Raleigh this fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord two thousand
seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-second.